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Am33d
Am33d

Reputation: 450

I want to assert for 404 in spec

I want to test my app which redirects to a custom 404, 500 error pages. I turned on config.consider_all_requests_local = false in the test.rb file to check for the error pages. Now everything works fine and I am able to fill in the fields and assert with capybara if the path exists in rake routes eg:

visit signin_path

the problem is if I give a wrong path like 

visit signin_path + '/xyz' #xyz is incorrent

or

visit ('/wrongpage')

to check for redirection to my custom error page, the test case gives an exception and does not proceed to the expect statement. This is the error:

Failure/Error: visit ('/wrongpage')

ActionController::RoutingError:
  No route matches [GET] "/wrongpage"

#then stack trace is printed here

I also tried checking for 

expect(page).to raise_error(ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound)

when I try to fetch a record with invalid id (like id = 'xyz' instead of integer, which gives a 500 error), same problem is present here, the execution stops and does not proceeds to the expect statement.

I also tried looking on the internet for answers but didn't get what I was looking for, this (https://stackoverflow.com/a/25469175/2924562) was close but for 

visit page_path

gives the following error:

    Failure/Error: visit page_path('wrongpage')

 NoMethodError:
   undefined method `page_path' for ....

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1411

Answers (2)

Am33d
Am33d

Reputation: 450

Rails.application.config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions

This was the issue!

It's value should be set as true

It can be done in two ways, either set it in test.rb file as:

# Raise exceptions instead of rendering exception templates
  config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = true

or

  before(:all) do
  Rails.application.config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = true
  end

Also, don't forget to check this: config.consider_all_requests_local = false, to display your custom error page (in your current environment).

Upvotes: 1

lacostenycoder
lacostenycoder

Reputation: 11226

Rails by default expects all routes to be defined in config/routes.rb

If you wanted to redirect all unknown routes in to some known endpoint you might add a line like this at the bottom of your routes file:

get '*path', to: 'home#index' #or whatever your default root path might be

There should be no need to test for 404 error as Rails will raise exception if your route is not found unless you handle it as shown above.

Upvotes: 0

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